Ice Breakers Commercial EPISODE FOUR: WHAT THEY FOUND IN THE PACIFIC 2025

VIDEO Ice Breakers EPISODE FOUR: WHAT THEY FOUND IN THE PACIFIC TV commercial 2020 • Life and Microfibers. After the swim, Ben Lecomte and Sarah Jeanne Royer reflect on what they’ve learned on the journey and what we can do to help in our own lives. 00:09 we're a multiple protocol that we are 00:12 follow what I call on the plastic where 00:15 we do observation and collection of 00:18 debris where the protocol on the micro 00:20 plastic that we collect and then we have 00:26 also a protocol on the microfiber 00:28 microfiber we collect after filtering 00:31 the water microfiber are specifically 00:39 little pieces of fiber that comes from 00:42 many the clothing that we wear the 00:44 clothing that are made out of plastic 00:45 synthetic unfortunately they are fought 00:48 in the water and the ocean we find it in 00:50 drinking water we find it in the rice we 00:53 find it in many many places that 00:55 shouldn't be there and it's very 00:57 important for us to collect data because 00:59 it's a very new field not a lot is known 01:01 about the effect on the body that still 01:04 is the beginning so we don't know the 01:05 extent of it but we know that the 01:07 concentration of it is raising fast I 01:09 decided to focus on microfibers because 01:12 this issue is not well known outside of 01:16 the scientific community 01:17 [Music] 01:22 I'm sahaja yogi I'm a postdoctoral 01:25 researcher at Scripps Institution of 01:28 Oceanography I work on plastic 01:30 degradation and I'm an oceanographer at 01:33 the moment we find microfibers in all 01:35 types of environments and the reason is 01:38 basically because the fibers they shed 01:41 from our own clothes so while we wear 01:43 them next to to the ocean next to the 01:46 bay we just have all these tiny 01:49 microfibers that will travel into the 01:51 atmosphere will find microfibers all 01:55 over the world these plastic and the 02:00 microfiber comes for most leader the 02:03 clothes that we are washing it's a new 02:05 problem that is rising very fast that is 02:08 something that we need to consider also 02:10 when we go and purchase our product to 02:13 go to a more natural way and just a way 02:15 from everything that is not etic- advertisement spot 2020